Software Engineer II

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Boston, MA

Software Engineer II at Chewy responsible for designing, building, and maintaining software components and scalable distributed systems using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-based services. The role involves agile development, participation in design and code reviews, and on-call support.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build software components of services and/or platforms.
  2. Actively participate in the definition, design, development, testing and implementation of software functionality using an agile methodology.
  3. Build and modify scalable distributed software systems.
  4. Partner with stakeholders and technology teams on how best to implement desired features and enhancements.
  5. Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable and are scalable under sustained load.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field and 3 years of experience required as a Software Developer, or related position/occupation.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study and 1 year of experience required as a Software Developer, or related position/occupation.
  • Software engineering
  • Developing software components and/or services using Java 8, Spring Boot, JSON, HTML, CSS, Spring MVC
  • Working with cloud based web services (HTTP, REST)
  • SQL and developing modules with relational databases
  • Server technologies
  • Quality assurance methodologies and automated testing
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • JavaScript
  • NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB)
  • Event-driven development and message queues (SQS, SNS)
  • software metrics, alerting, monitoring, and dashboard systems
  • Python and Linux/Bash scripting
  • On-call support, incident troubleshooting, and code reviews
  • Java unit testing using JUnit and Mockito
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Agile/Scrum
  • open-source technologies
  • responsive module design
  • continuous integration